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The Ballerina with Hannah Bekelya
Ana de Armas takes center stage in "Ballerina," expanding the John Wick universe through the story of a vengeful assassin trained from childhood who returns to kill those responsible for her father's murder.
• Ballerina fits seamlessly into the John Wick universe, taking place between John Wick 3 and 4
• Ana de Armas brings a unique fighting style focused on explosives and grenades rather than John Wick's signature gun-fu
• The film serves as an origin story, showing how Eve develops from a slightly inexperienced assassin to a formidable force
• Keanu Reeves makes several appearances as John Wick, though these sometimes overshadow the main character's development
• The gun shop tunnel sequence stands out as one of the most impressive action scenes in the film
• The third act features an innovative fight with flamethrowers that demonstrates the character applying lessons from her training
• The movie ends with a cliffhanger setting up potential sequels, with Eve receiving a bounty on her head
• New characters are introduced who could become franchise staples, particularly the gun shop owner
• Ballet training serves as the foundation for assassination skills, emphasizing the discipline and physical demands of both worlds
• While the action choreography impresses, the plot remains relatively simple with a straightforward revenge narrative
If you enjoyed this expansion of the John Wick universe, keep an eye out for upcoming installments including John Wick 5, the prequel series The Continental on Peacock, and potential sequels to Ballerina.
excuse me, is anybody sitting here? Sorry, this is taken sorry this is like the time of year where movies are picking up and the theaters are more packed. This definitely notices this. Past friday, when we went first of all, I went to imagine. I never go to imagine it's a nicer theater than amc is around here. You don't ever go to Imagine it's a nicer theater than AMC's around here.
Speaker 3:You don't ever go to Imagine.
Speaker 1:No only for the really, really big movies. Yeah, Imagine's dope. Go to the comfortable seatings. I like the screenings a little bit better. Their concessions seem more appealing than AMC's.
Speaker 3:You didn't get anything.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not a big snack guy in the movies. Yeah, maybe once in a while I get some candy. Not a popcorn guy Really.
Speaker 3:Anthony was sharing that popcorn with me and didn't even touch it until the end of the movie, and I was like what the fuck, man?
Speaker 1:And then I did get a beer. Though I never drink at the theaters, I did get a beer and that was pretty awesome because mostly when I go to these movies I don't like to take anything or drink anything before a movie because it takes me out of the movie. Man like I'm thinking, like this is totally this person's totally acting, like I'm thinking more behind the scenes stuff than that like man the other probably reset this like five times, you know. And then at this point the whole action scene just passed. I was like, yeah, so I don't like doing, like drinking too much, but this one added to my adrenaline. It cooled me down. This movie was sick. We were going to talk today. Welcome back to. This Is Taken. I'm your host, Rob Miranda. We're going to be doing talking about From the World of John Wick Ballerina.
Speaker 1:But there was already a movie, like in the early 2000s, called Ballerina. But I was like you could have come up with something creative at least.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, she was one of the ballerinas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ballerina, maybe like Seeks Revenge or something like that. You know, because John Wick is also John Wick, chapter 1, 2, also john wick, chapter one two, three, four, yeah, so it could have been, her could have been anything, john wick, I don't know they really wait.
Speaker 3:What's her name?
Speaker 1:in the name uh eve yeah, why couldn't? It be like chapter one or eve's revenge oh, they could have gave her a last name like that. That would have been sick, right? John wick is a dope name, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and for our throwback, we're going to be talking about the 2011 Hannah movie. Never seen it, never even heard of it, until you brought it up when I asked you about the podcast Action movie. Yeah, I have a lot of hot takes on that movie. It's a good movie, don't get me wrong, but it pairs perfectly with Ballerina.
Speaker 3:It's the first thing I thought of, Because I kind of forgot. You always like to do two movies and I was like you know what? I haven't seen this movie in a while. And I loved it back in the day when I was in high school.
Speaker 1:And it's the same name as you too. I spelled it differently, yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay, I put the H at the end, uh you and mother or big movie fans.
Speaker 1:I know your mom's been going to the movies. I don't know how I know that, but I know your mom's been going to the movies but you don't because she's an amc member too and all that or member probably cinemark, cinemark, cinemark. That's pretty sick though I like how she does that still oh, every weekend they're going to the movies if you're gonna go to the movies this year um no, just with you dude it's picking up.
Speaker 3:wait, did we go to the movies earlier this year? See, I have this problem every single time you ask me. I like never go to the movies, but we did just pay like $20 to watch that war movie that just came out not too long ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, warfare or something like that, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So we bought that on the TV, but we like to just be at home watching movies, movies you have to see in theaters, some of them at least.
Speaker 1:Warfare was a good example. You should have seen that in theaters.
Speaker 3:I know, I know Avatar we saw in theaters. Yeah, movies like that are made for the movie theater experience, Honestly the ballerina, one, though probably could have waited until it was at home.
Speaker 1:Maybe especially if you had a good surround sound system.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, jacob has all that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's what adds to it.
Speaker 2:But as far as plot wise, we'll get into it. I don't know it was okay.
Speaker 1:The movie like it made up for some parts with other aspects, but the action overall this is okay. I mean it definitely is a john wick movie. You can definitely feel it and even the john wick especially the first one, like the premise is is not great. It's good but it's at the end of the day, like you make fun of it in the movie, like all this because of a dog, you know, and this one is this a very simple plot line best friends.
Speaker 3:Okay, our dogs are our best friends and this one is very simple too.
Speaker 1:It's just as simple you kill my dad and I want to come kill you yeah you know there's nothing too much into the actual plot, but they make up for it in the actions and the explosion. That's what you go in wanting to see in a john wick movie. That's what I'm expecting.
Speaker 1:Um, before we get into that, I just want to talk more about movies, because a lot of movie news dropped. Uh, we got a new trailer, the final trailer for fantastic four. I'm super into all the nerd stuff where I'm all over the show on Franklin and you know there's a bunch of other characters Superman's right around the corner. I've been getting geeked for Superman. I'm not even a DC guy, but Superman I'm getting very excited for. I've had their Superman DQ blizzard like three times already.
Speaker 3:Wait what's in it? Like the Superman ice cream.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like the cotton candy, but not cotton candy.
Speaker 3:It's like birthday cake in there instead, is it the colors of Superman ice?
Speaker 1:cream. Yeah, it's just blue. That's what makes it Superman.
Speaker 3:Just blue Isn't the normal blue, red and yellow when you get it at any ice cream parlor.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess Dairy Queen's fucking up, but it's a blizzard. Not ice cream, though.
Speaker 3:Like a scooped ice cream like ice cream, though like a scooped ice cream, yeah, but I don't know, okay, whatever, I'm thinking too far into it.
Speaker 1:You are. You're uh, dc, just partnered up with fortnite. I've been playing a lot of fortnite lately and they teamed up with superman super. You can play superman in the character. Just more specifically, uh, the new superman coming out very sick, uh. What else is coming out? F1 brad brad pitt's new movie, f1 uh racing. Have you seen trailers for those looks phenomenal. It's the same guy who directed talk on maverick.
Speaker 3:Do we see any trailers? No, we showed up a little bit later oh, it's because I was driving me nuts on the inside. I have to be there for the trailers you know, anthony did make a comment of that. He was like I bet robert is like, like cussing you out for like running behind on parking and stuff, because he likes the previews.
Speaker 1:I love the trailers, even though I've seen them. It's probably nothing I haven't seen before, but I still.
Speaker 3:I love watching them still I mean I do too, and I'm a person that kind of misses um commercials and shows I kind of miss, like I'm a weirdo but I miss them.
Speaker 1:There's AMC announcements that just came out this past week. They're adding more commercials to their thing Really. Right now you wait 20 minutes from the start time, 20 minutes of the trailers, between 20 and 25 minutes, and now it might be a little bit longer.
Speaker 3:Really Okay if it's movie stuff, fine, but I hate when they do like their movie theater commercials.
Speaker 1:That's like long as shit, and then it's like a super loud like nicole kimmins and noise that drives me nuts because, like we're already in amc, why do you need to do a commercial for?
Speaker 3:us. I could see you playing on the outside or something or like before the previews start, do your commercials and then keep the preview time for those louder ones.
Speaker 1:They mostly do for the most part.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but then they throw in that loud one right at the end.
Speaker 1:I like to show up honestly 15 minutes before a movie starts.
Speaker 3:Weirdo man.
Speaker 1:I am weird Because they do play those local commercials there. And then the start time, then it's the previews. I love every single one of them.
Speaker 3:then they now that you have to have previews for, like an ac commercial for you're watching this on the imac the imax commercial, or the, the vfx one or whatever it was cinema and then you go through the actual nicole kitman one, and then there's one for coca-cola. I was like god damn it, dude right, I just want the movies.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's all I care about care about I get it, they probably go play good. Coca-cola probably pays good money for that commercial every single time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but we all buy Coca-Cola, so you only sell Coke products too.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, I do like the Coke machine Seriously wait.
Speaker 3:Does any movie theater sell Pepsi products?
Speaker 1:I don't Not AM and not AMC.
Speaker 3:Comment, if you know, if one does Seriously, because now I need to know.
Speaker 1:I don't think AMC Imagine.
Speaker 3:I don't even think like Harkin Cedar in Arizona sells Pepsi, I think it's Coke products Interesting. Oh, I'm looking that up later, for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're going to expose them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I like those random facts Okay.
Speaker 1:AMC does have a bar. The bar is not nearly as cool as the one is. Imagine. Very nice, just ain't as nice. I mean, the one in amc 16 is not too bad.
Speaker 3:I didn't even know they had a bar there I thought imagine was the only one I might apply.
Speaker 1:I heard there's a bartending position open there yeah, I might apply.
Speaker 3:Have you ever bartended?
Speaker 1:no, I served before, but not bartended do you know how to make cocktails?
Speaker 3:no, oh wait, you have your buddy though, right yeah, yeah from greg, from the awkward bartender podcast yeah, yeah, he could teach you some tricks yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah you see me like tom cruise and shit for the models, but I was like that's like a perfect gig, just serving drinks and talking movies with everybody there yeah, that's right up your alley that seems pretty dope I don't know, I'm drinking, though.
Speaker 3:I'm not even gonna lie. I'm a little hungover, so drinking right now sounds terrible. It's not that bad.
Speaker 1:I mean, the hangovers are bad, but drinking that's pretty awesome in the summertime.
Speaker 3:I guess yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's having a good weather.
Speaker 3:A little too far last night. Brew at the zoo okay, Brew at the zoo.
Speaker 1:Brew at drinks. Gotta get my 55 worth. I would totally probably. I'm turning 30 next year. I probably would have a movie. Uh, move party at the movie theater like an imagine you know you are funny. That would be sick yeah that'd be sick heck, yeah rent out a movie theater like and have a birthday party because imagine has those rooms there for you to rent out the parties yeah but I think all it is is like a room with a table and chairs cody and tree said their house.
Speaker 3:They have bonfires and they have a big blow up screen that we watch.
Speaker 1:I want one of those. Yeah, you should do that.
Speaker 3:That way, you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my future goal. Maybe I got a backyard. I just told you before the podcast. I got like a lot of free time now. Yeah, I do want to pick a movie to make people who love movies and don't love movies, or just show up for the party a classic what would you put on? I don't know, I already know there is an answer for me, you know there's an answer for you.
Speaker 3:I think that would be universally loved like super bad that wouldn't work for some people.
Speaker 1:Really, I've been on this podcast, yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 3:I guess you're right. What is your pick? Uh, I would say rush hour oh, that's a good one, that's a pretty universally loved movie that is maybe friday. Some people won't like that one. I'm kind of like I'm thinking of people that's been on the podcast so what? What's the difference between super bad and friday?
Speaker 1:uh, you, I don't know the profanity. I think there's like do you see tits in there?
Speaker 3:all right, friday is still yeah, kind of like the same tier, kind of yeah yeah, but rush hour seems like safe action. Funny, good, heartfelt yeah, yeah, you could do roadhouse the original one, the original, yeah, the second one sucked yeah, I mean, jake jillenhall is just nice matter of fact.
Speaker 1:Uh, the guy who came on here, chris fritza. He came onto this podcast and we did talk about the second world word house not too long ago and he promoted his usc fight. I think it's happening this week or next week, so good luck out there, chris Good luck.
Speaker 3:Don't know you, but good luck, you probably won't listen Ballerina.
Speaker 1:We went to go see Ballerina.
Speaker 3:We went together too, guys. Yeah, we enjoyed the movie together with a couple of our buddies.
Speaker 1:Do you like going with a group of people, or would you go by yourself?
Speaker 3:I, like a couple of our buddies, do you like going with a group of people, or would you go by yourself? I like to go with my husband as like a date, or I go with my mom and, like my, aunt and her friend.
Speaker 1:So yeah, usually it's like a group of people or it's just like me and my husband on a date it is, I don't know I can't do by myself if I'm by myself, I'm gonna fall asleep no, I love going by myself, especially when you go by yourself and get the entire theater to yourself oh well, yeah, if I had no one else in there. But yeah, I don't know. Even so, I like to go by myself like my mom does too sometimes I think I'm more shy to like laugh a lot, but like, if there's enough of you guys laughing, then it's pretty cool yeah but yeah, I like it by myself.
Speaker 1:You know, even if, like, there's nobody in the theater or there's like one or two people and I'm sitting behind them, I'll just watch the movie and scroll on my phone the entire time yeah, anthony was scrolling on his phone next.
Speaker 3:That's kind of ignorant.
Speaker 1:I hate that I was, I looked over and I was like this bitch no, I hate people who don't have movie theater.
Speaker 3:Etiquette for a little bit at the beginning and then he put it down.
Speaker 1:I didn't say anything, but I didn't notice him as much, but I've seen people like either in front of me, down a little bit, or someone to the right of me I hate that, it annoys me or people who answer the phone, you know oh, fuck them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, kicked out. Yeah, citizens arrest.
Speaker 1:I'm kicking you out I always think about going about complaining to somebody and being that guy, but I'm so nervous like walking down and then we come back up and the theater guy comes in like they're gonna know it's me exactly.
Speaker 3:No, just uh, take popcorn down or something, get a refill, oh wait.
Speaker 1:Oh wait. You don't have popcorn at movies. I need an alibi.
Speaker 3:Sometimes candy. Come back with candy. There you go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, john Wick movies. You've seen all of them, right yeah? Okay, good. I was kind of nervous. I didn't ask you that before we went to go see this one Big fan of the franchise.
Speaker 3:Well, that's why I said I wanted to do this one, because I like the john wick movies. Yeah, do you? I think this movie felt perfectly into the universe of john wick. It did it, definitely did. I like that. It was now one of the girls stories, because you got to see blips of them and stuff like in the second one, yeah, yeah but I I like that. I saw way more of it in this one yeah, so you know what we can talk.
Speaker 1:A little bit of facts about that. I did read about this one. I mean, this movie's been in the works since the second John Wick movie it's just been picked up retold different stories. They always wanted to do something with that one and that's why I think this movie does take place between the second and third movie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it has to right because he died almost.
Speaker 1:he looks like he dies in the last one and they thought he does die in the last one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they just don't address why he's here yeah in the movie the time frame I'm sure like because it clips back to when he goes in that hallway and it's pretty close after that yeah, but then she's a little bit older and it's after that though.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're right. So it's either right after the third John Wick or maybe the second one.
Speaker 3:Did we look it up? No, I was going to. We did this last time we started spewing out things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we ended up telling hella wrong facts about that movie.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, loretta Lynn yeah that was good.
Speaker 1:So I didn't really have a lot of faith in this movie. I thought it was going to be Like the studio saw. It was not that good and that's why they heavily marketed. Yeah, it's part of the John Wick universe. It's part of the John Wick universe.
Speaker 3:They even retitled it from the world of John Wick, it's after chapter three, before chapter four starts.
Speaker 1:Okay, which makes sense. But it's also the same time he's supposed to be on the run too. At the end of chapter three he gets a hit on him. So everyone in the world's after this guy.
Speaker 3:But then it shows that she has her hit on her at the end of the movie.
Speaker 1:Eve went to the very top. No, no Talk about the end of John Wick two. You said it's after three, nevermind.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's after three. Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, and then?
Speaker 3:she has the hit on her at the end of her movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which is obviously setting up for possible sequels and it might not be the same exact movie as John Wick 2?
Speaker 3:then, because that's what happens then, yeah, I hope it's her, though still, but I hope it just gets more intense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I could definitely see her returning. There hasn't been official confirmation as of right now. Yeah, but I'm sure once the box numbers come, in which our theater was packed, there was a lot of people there Surprisingly. I didn't think it was gonna be that many people. I'm sure once they see the numbers opening weekend. It's going to get announced shortly after. So there's one, two, three, four John wicks. There's a prequel show, the continental. There's a show, yeah, on Peacock.
Speaker 3:It.
Speaker 1:There's a show, yeah on peacock, it's winston like him how he became the manager.
Speaker 3:Shut up, yeah, oh my god, there's a lot of famous actors in that one too, I have peacock. I'm gonna watch that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I need a new show, it's set in the 70s, if I'm not mistaken. So that's, that's been nice kane from john wick 4 is getting his own spin-off movie. There is going to be a prequel. There's going to be john wick 5 too. There's going going to be a prequel. John Wick either movie or show coming out. I want to say show, but I also heard anime too. So who knows, that would be sick too, and obviously a possible sequel for the Bollywood movie I like action movies.
Speaker 1:I mean it's definitely a franchise. I liked how it went from just a trilogy to a franchise now. But how much can you milk out of these? How much can you milk out of these? How much can you milk? I feel like I said this is a very dry plot, but there was a lot of action in it and I like how it's obvious it's not a john wickton movie. To me now it's a ballerina movie. She definitely made a name for herself because a totally different fighting style john wick is with the double pistols and sometimes so we're like random weapons, like even a pencil. This one is obviously explosives. Her take is explosive, specifically grenades, and it's like axing people in the face and shit like that yeah, that was intense, or um well, her dad does the smoke bombs too at the beginning that's she probably saw that growing up and seized grenades and fucking smoke bombs and she goes two together yeah, before we go any further, I'll read the plot real quick.
Speaker 1:Um, an assassin trained in the traditions of roscoe ruma organization set out to seek revenge after her father's death. Director was len wiseman, written by shea hatton. This is like the first time also john wick quote unquote John Wick movie without the original directors. The same guy directed all five of them. Oh, this one is a totally different director and it's similar style. There's some things I would have liked to have seen in this movie that would have made it a lot better. Example the movie opens up on this little girl who was witnessing her dad get tortured and killed.
Speaker 1:Essentially, there is a point in the movie where you can clearly see where her point of innocence changed, like was taken away from her. I should say there's. She makes the choice to shoot and kill somebody to save her father, and he even knew that was a big deal for her too. You know, like he, he is gonna be trying to calm her down. Once you meet that first kill, you're never going back.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I think that was a turning point for this woman in real life.
Speaker 3:Well, when she does it again, it snaps that image back in her head too.
Speaker 1:But I wish they would have shown that Like there is she, so she also meets this guy from a rivaling cult kind of thing. It's weird. Who's trying to get his daughter out of the cult Similar situation to her. So that's why she takes it personal. The dad does look like he gets killed. I wish there was a scene where the little girl sees a gun and tries to kill her too, but she stops him thinking like you don't want that innocence taken away. You know, I would have loved that scene. I mean I'm sure that was implied kind of thing, because obviously she doesn't want her, that little girl, to end up like her exactly, but that would have been sick.
Speaker 1:I thought maybe the director thought it was too much on the nose or maybe you didn't think about it at all no, I think that would have been great in the movie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it would have tied it a little bit better in, and at the very beginning too, I felt like her. She was awkward, it like was little girl, no, no, no oh, anna darmas yeah, she was just a little awkward at the beginning, like when she was first starting out, like she goes to the continental the first time with the coin yeah you can just tell like it's just also.
Speaker 1:This is also an origin story for her too.
Speaker 3:So these are like her first missions.
Speaker 1:True, obviously she's gonna get nothing but better.
Speaker 3:I'm sure that's all the amateurs start right after that first hotel scene I was like okay, this is getting a little bit better now. That was just kind of awkward even that scene like.
Speaker 1:That was her first mission. She was a little bit sloppy with this she had. They didn't even trust her a whole lot either, so that's why they gave her rubber bullets, um, but you know it's, it's an origin story. That's what sets us apart from john wick. You don't know john wick's yeah, they're going to come out with a prequel later, but I like that. He's already this badass. We already established we don't have to build up to anything like that.
Speaker 3:It's just him being badass. I felt like with her movie they kind of did it too fast. It was all crumbled into one movie, but it still took a while to get to the end. Yeah, there were still lingering parts, but it crumbled in other parts, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and also the ending. Instead of like the first john wick having a satisfying ending, this one it was obviously set out to build a franchise because, now, though, now that family's gonna have to go to war with the spoiler.
Speaker 3:Do we say spoiler? This is spoiler alert. Go ahead, all right, it's a spoiler alert. John wick killing the fuck or the guy in the cult or whatever, and she doesn't even get to. That made me mad yeah, that made me mad, but I know it's because he had until midnight or whatever, and then the rules went back in apply or whatever. So that's why he did it, because he looked at his watch. But come on, you took her, you took the kill.
Speaker 1:I don't remember her, him killing her. What the, what the oh, with the guy with the, the flamethrower with the sniper. No, no, no, the old the guy the older guy, I thought she, oh she, he did kill her, and then he was like a slicer or something like that because then she looks up at him and she's like piss that he took her, him out. Wait right yeah, I don't think so that's not how I remember in it.
Speaker 1:I know, I know john wick does kill the guy with the sniper, okay, so I mean there's a whole lot of things. Maybe I'm getting it mixed up there's a whole lot of things, but I want to go through like each character first before um, anna de armas. I'm not I've been very vocal I'm not a big fan of anna as an actress what else is she?
Speaker 1:she was in ghosted. They came out. She's a couple big movies. Let me see she's most known for the blade runner movies. Uh, knives out. She played blonde um, blonde um marilyn monroe. She was in ghosted. She was in the gray man deep water, deep water. You reviewed that with me on this podcast also, I think your first episode. Oh yeah, so she has been around for a while and I've seen Knives Out.
Speaker 3:I haven't seen any of those other movies.
Speaker 1:She's actually a pretty big name in Hollywood.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:And it was actually a pretty big deal when she got announced as this casting choice. I don't know, I thought she did very okay in this kind of movie. Yeah, nothing stood out to me about her as anybody else could do. I mean, honestly, this movie just reminded me that it wanted to be a Black Widow movie so bad. Yeah, or Black Widow wanted to be this movie so bad.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. I feel like there could have been a better person, honestly, to do an action movie like this.
Speaker 1:That's comparable to, because even her acting like in the, not like the fighting scenes, like she was cool, doing badass, doing the action scenes, but like the scene where she's at the ballerina. I was like the mistress wants to see you. She's so dry, which I mean that could be the character being miserable around that time, but she was like the monotone throughout the whole movie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, I needed more. I needed something more. Who do you think would have been better in her spot?
Speaker 1:You know, I wanted to be safe and say like I was Scarlett Johansson or Jennifer Lawrence, but I feel like those are like babying the roles too much.
Speaker 3:Yeah, jennifer Lawrence, I don't think would be good. What's her name, Mom? I could see Scarlett Johansson, though.
Speaker 1:She's a little bit older now, but Florence Pugh would have been great. You think I love Florence.
Speaker 3:I great. You think I love florence. I do too, but for this role it's too similar action to um. Honestly, I think the girl that plays hannah in the movie I, the other movie I picked I think she's uh yeah, but now she's a little bit older.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're right, but um, florence, people like it's too much similar to her thunderbolts movie that just came out like action wise, like her fighting style and stuff like that. The entire time you would have been thinking about Marvel instead of John Wick, I think.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But she did okay. I want to talk about Keanu Reeves as John Wick. Does it add more to the character? I don't think so. Not at all. Actually, Does it take away from it? Not really it just makes it seem very reliant on him, like, okay, this movie isn't working, let's throw john wick in there. Finally, you know, because there is even a scene where the john wick scene like that church when he gets discovered, like this isn't even about a scene like this is his scene like they had to get some of his fighting in there too because we all like when john wick fights.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, because I did enjoy that scene if they would have just like left it as a small cameo in the very beginning of the church or the ballot like wherever they live and showing up giving that advice just one other time, for a blip or something would have been fine, but that whole scene it did
Speaker 1:take away from her kind of I think so, but like it didn't add anything to john wick, like she calls him, because now he this is the player, like he owns him, basically to do favors and he shows up on a train almost as like as our call pet. You know, like your your dad to do this and he doesn't want to do it. He does not want to kill this person. He like goes out of his way to give her like 80 chances to leave.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so once john wick has a heart he does have a heart because he gives her like till midnight he gives her like an actual 15 minutes to do what she got to do. Otherwise it's lame. I'll talk about the third act too, in a minute because, like with the flamethrowers, because that was kind of I didn't think that was as cool as they probably thought it was going to be yeah, it wasn't the water thing, yeah but that whole thing was symbolism.
Speaker 1:I like that because in the like towards the beginning of the movie, when she's training and she's fighting that bigger guy, she keeps losing. She's like you're fighting him, like fight against him, like his strengths, like look at his things and change up your style, like fucking open up. Yeah, definitely does very symbolize, like in that fight with the flamethrower. Flamethrower wasn't cutting it because he's trying to fight fire, fire. It's kind of out of the nose and then like switch it up and get water and that's when you finally beat his ass do you think that would actually happen, though a hose like that dude?
Speaker 1:I didn't think flamethrowers could do it like that. They were like showing flame balls yeah, like punching it or whatever yeah, that was like fucking hella flames. I'm so used to seeing like the older ones, like in older movies, like where she's only three or four feet in front of you oh wait, once upon a time in hollywood, when they have that yeah I love that scene. I love they're making a sequel to that, are they really?
Speaker 3:yeah, hell yeah, I'll, I'll do the brad pitt's already signed on thing to do it, it Nice. Yeah, I like that movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, going back to the movie. Actually, I want to go through the characters a little bit more. Ian McShane Winston he comes back twice in this movie, once as a younger version of himself. I thought that was so stupid. I don't think they tried de-aging him at all, you just dyed his hair. He looks exactly the same, if not older than his version now yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3:I agree, but he is one of my favorite characters well, him and um no, what's the concierge name? The black guy oh yeah, wait, no, that's what I'm thinking of lance.
Speaker 1:He plays char charon, charon yeah didn't he just pass away recently? I think so yeah that's all I thought about when I seen that, which is good, sweet and stuff like that. Uh, the director ballerina, the one who's like the mistress in the beginning I don't know, it's not the actress I don't like. I just don't like the character. The main lady yeah, no, not the director, the one, the older lady who training them yeah, yeah, I mean the organizer.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you don't, you don't like her, no, to me it's just like she's no, not the director.
Speaker 1:The one, the older lady who's training them. Yeah, the main organizer. Yeah, you don't. You don't like her.
Speaker 3:No, To me it's just like she's like full, so full of herself, which I mean it's the whole thing about the character, but Well, have you ever taken ballet classes? Probably not, but my ballet teacher, they're all mean. Yeah, why do you think like? They think female assassination is associated with ballerinas? The discipline that you have to do for dancing in a ballet.
Speaker 1:That's what.
Speaker 3:I was thinking the discipline. That shit is hard. You can't even do point until you've reached past level three in ballet. Yeah. And then you have to train your calves to do point, and it is Like you saw our toes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bleeding. It is hard on your toes, your feet, your calves, everything see the biggest reason why I think I've never got into sports or been athletic. But someone go again.
Speaker 3:It's like, nah, I'm good I did ballet and tap when I was a kid.
Speaker 2:For years almost to the point where I and tap dancing.
Speaker 3:Yep, you usually do two when you're like in a dance class. So I always chose ballet and tap. I did clogging once. Very weird, that is weird, very weird. It's tap shoes but one is loose, so you clog with it and you shuffle ball chain and it just looks weird. So ballet was my thing for sure, and then I did like tennis and crap like that. But yeah, yeah, ballet was my thing for sure, and then I did like tennis and crap like that.
Speaker 1:But yeah, yeah, I just talked to my dad, Like he brought up like the other day, like I mean I've always did karate for like a day or two.
Speaker 3:Oh, I only did karate for like a week. And I went on a trip with my parents and they wouldn't let me come back to the class because I missed too much.
Speaker 1:I don't think it's possible for an American to be good at karate.
Speaker 3:I for an American to be good at karate. I kind of want to go take a self-defense class. I kind of want to fight the ballerina in this movie Dude.
Speaker 1:I think stuff like that spikes up heavily after one of these movies Dude.
Speaker 3:I want to I think I can handle my own, I'm a good shooter. My dad was a sharpshooter in the army.
Speaker 1:He taught me from the time I was a kid. But yeah, you're shooting. Good, I'm sure it's just standing still, though this chick is like flipping and doing all that kind of stuff. I know I want to be that good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I want to try one of those when they were doing the kind of like cops do they go through the rooms and they're having their guns and they shoot people.
Speaker 1:You want to be SWAT.
Speaker 3:Yeah, whatever it is, I want to do that. Cltm 6? I want Do they have a place like that. I don't know, I have no idea where you go to learn.
Speaker 1:I don't want to do paintballing, I have no idea how to get in that world. I was like, yeah, I can show you where you go with karate.
Speaker 3:I need to ask some of my cop friends Someone take me to like a camp or something. I just want to see if I can go through a house and not get shot.
Speaker 1:That's some serious training.
Speaker 3:And now you're can do anything I put my mind to okay and if it's something cool like that. I can do it. My back does hurt, though, a lot of the times I gotta take special medication I'm 30 now yeah, um.
Speaker 1:No, like I don't know, I just had to go through some serious training as john wick john wick is actually a producer on this movie, not john wick kiana reese is the producer on this movie and I'm sure he had to do a lot with her suggestions of training and stuff like that too. Yeah, um, I'm sure, like it's a big thing now that stunts are going to go into the oscars now they're finally starting next year, I believe. Do you think this movie has what it takes to be qualified in the ranking already?
Speaker 1:yeah, with the flamethrowing and stuff those stunt people deserve a an award okay or in a nomination at least, or something I'm trying to think of like other big movies coming out with stunt work. I mean you have the, obviously, the marvel movies, but they never get nominated um f1. Maybe, if you consider the driving the stunt, which I'm sure they should, um yeah, or some other big movies, action movies too, but I don't know just like they could be, it could be I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 3:What was that movie that came out about stunt? The fall guy yes, I love that movie yeah that made me appreciate those stunt people that you never think of in the movies, like then. It made me appreciate, like what they actually go through and we need to recognize that a little bit more wild.
Speaker 1:That has never been in the category.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I agree because we need to recognize them.
Speaker 1:They put their lives out there there was even like a reference to original um stunt working, like in this movie, like when she was accidentally clicking through the channels, and they were old stunt work from back in like in the early days, like black and white TV. That was pretty cool. A lot of the cool things were on the nose yeah, a little bit. There's no subtle meanings, a lot of things me. I felt like Lena plays her sister. She was cool in this movie. You know what I'm talking about, yeah, the cult girl yeah yeah, she was part of the cult, you guys.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she kills her though, or no?
Speaker 1:she doesn't get killed, she. She was kind of relieved to see her find out she was alive and thinking like yeah, come on, sis, come on over, I missed you or whatever yeah, now we could be in this cult together, the house house gets blown up. Yeah, and I've told you after we walked out of the movie there's no way her character is not deaf With all these explosions.
Speaker 3:All the grenades and stuff being right behind the door or the table. I'm like it hurts my ears.
Speaker 1:All it takes is a simple two second scene to show her putting earplugs or something in, and I would have more likely to believe that.
Speaker 3:I had one of those oh, what plugs or something in, and I would have more likely to believe that I had one of those oh, what are those m80s is that what people used to have, like I don't know, and you, you throw them or whatever, and they're loud as shit.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, wait, I think that's what they're called. Okay, anyways, one of my friends had this in high school okay, we were on a country road, we were in a car and they threw it out the window. But we were stopped, okay, because someone was taking a piss and threw it out into the field and it was so loud my right ear drum was ringing for like three hours after that thing went off it's not like a firework or anything, it just literally blows.
Speaker 3:You're not supposed to have them. That's some michigan city stuff, dude. I didn't grow up in michigan city, I was in valpo and this was in valpo, but still, yeah, I hung out with some questionable people, for sure, but yeah, that girl should have been deaf no doubt about it first grenade yeah, we talked about how her fighting style is a lot different than which is guns.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, she likes grenades and the choreography was great with these grenades like that's only one of my favorite kills in the whole movie was like her going through that tunnel at the gun shop with the grenades. That was my favorite that was my favorite scene too, like fighting scene, yeah, but also every single room in this whole movie had at least like three points of entry.
Speaker 3:No, three points of entry and staircases going up or downstairs well, it was a secret like back room of his gun shop. And that's why she grabbed grenades because everything didn't have ammo in it.
Speaker 1:We're talking about like also in the club scenes. Oh yeah, and then also the whole town, like every single house they went into had like had grenades? No, not. Also grenades yeah. We're talking about like easy entrances, like staircases and like so many ways you can hide and stuff stuff like that.
Speaker 3:I was like no, the first house like when she was a kid, that was cool. I want a castle like that, with secret entrances and hideaways, and also like cool.
Speaker 1:I mean the big spoiler at the end, like she's the cult leader's granddaughter and her actual dad kidnaps her, trying to take her away because he's married into the family. He's not really attached to them too much, um why, the first place would you go is back to your house.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:You know like you're running from this cult leader and obviously you know they have men, disposable men, that just come up out of the water.
Speaker 3:That was creepy he was very good at like fighting.
Speaker 1:I enjoyed his scene too.
Speaker 3:There, I like the cult people, like fighting.
Speaker 1:Those are good scenes, man. Yeah, ruthless john wick comes and you see his fighting style immediately. It's always like grab a suit jacket and cover his face. I wish they put more that into the his movies, like he's the only one that does that I wish she would have looked at him and been like where do I get that right?
Speaker 3:like I needed that in that movie because she was getting her ass kicked and she could have like. I think she noticed in one of the scenes I think yeah, there was a moment that I saw that she looked at that and was kind of questioning. It looked like she was like what the fuck? I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, she did get beat the shit out of her a lot. Like I said, it's also an origin story. She's very, very new to the game on the field.
Speaker 3:I would have loved if she would have just looked at him and been like where do I get one of these jackets?
Speaker 1:yeah, something I'm sure by the second movie she's she's got a lot more skill and connections, so maybe she'll get something like that yeah, I need more, I need more yeah, I want to be I need her to become more of a badass now and do more action stuff on her.
Speaker 3:No more john wick with her, just her doing it. He doesn't even have to be included at all. She can kill the other bad guys.
Speaker 1:There is a guy who plays a shopkeep, the gun store owner?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I liked him.
Speaker 1:Dude, I guarantee you he's going to be back. And he's going to be, the new person connecting all these other people, like he's going to be the new Winston, almost. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure someone in another movie's gonna come to him by his shops too, like oh, that's that guy, you know yeah, or I hope so.
Speaker 3:I like his vibe, the way he talked and stuff and like kept the conversation to a minimum until all that crap started happening, and he's like you know what. On second thought, here here's a map like I don't want my shop to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah so either he's gonna be back in other movies and hers or it might be just strictly hers. He might be her new Winston, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:She's like, oh, you're back again, you're onto something like that I got something new for you this time, or something like that. You're onto something with that one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's cool. I wish I had seen him in action a little bit more. He. But he gets shot and goes hides away immediately.
Speaker 3:Well, he's just a seller.
Speaker 1:That would be sick to see him as a cool.
Speaker 3:He had nice hands too. He got shot in his hand. I saw him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's going to be a cool recurring character. He will, and it does set up very well if you really want sequels, because now the whole Her clan I can't remember her name, the Ruska Romas Going to her clan I can't remember her name. Uh, the rusca romas gonna go to war with these occult people. Now, if there's any people left, they kill almost everybody in town it looks like yeah so I mean, that's a possible sequel. Would you watch this movie again in theaters?
Speaker 3:wait, do you think that the cult people, even though their master, main guy, whatever, whatever you call them died, do you think they're gonna come after?
Speaker 1:them yeah really you do. You think they're going to come after them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, really, you don't think they're all going to be like fuck it.
Speaker 1:Not because I think that's the best move. I just don't think the studio coming up with anything better than that.
Speaker 3:True, you're right. You're right. What did you ask me? Sorry.
Speaker 1:What would you watch this movie again in theaters?
Speaker 3:I'm going to, not in theaters. No, I would not go back to.
Speaker 1:Are you going to go back to the movie and watch it?
Speaker 3:Okay, no, I'm going to wait, though, and I'm going to watch it with Jacob when it comes out at home, because he likes all the John Wick, so I can't have him miss it. But I even told him. I was like, honestly, honey, because I got home that night he got home from work late I was like, honestly, we'll just wait I mean we don't have to go back and see it together.
Speaker 1:I'm glad I watched the movie me too.
Speaker 3:No, I am, because I do like action movies in the theaters, like you said yeah this is one where I'm like me.
Speaker 1:I probably would not watch this movie again until the next john wick movie comes out, or one of the movies.
Speaker 3:Yeah, just to like refresh myself, which I like to do exactly, and I'm glad I watched a recap of all the john wick movies before I saw Ballerina. Like I watched it on YouTube before I went.
Speaker 1:I feel like I just did John Wick last year, but it's been two years since John Wick came out.
Speaker 3:The fourth one. That's pretty insane.
Speaker 1:And I really liked that movie too, but I'd never watch it again after that theater.
Speaker 3:Me too, Because Jacob and I went to the theater and saw that one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what would you give this movie?
Speaker 3:one out of ten. By the way, john wick is also in fortnight. Oh, he just was in fortnight too. I would give it. I could give a 5.5. It has potential out of 10.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's pretty mid. That's very it is mid. I was gonna give it I walked out of there robert, and I was like meh, there was.
Speaker 1:I mean, I literally looked straight at anthony was like yeah one of my favorite shots is, like I wish I did long shots like like one continuous shot, like fighting scenes. Yeah, those are extremely hard to pull off, which I don't blame for not wanting to do, but one of the cool shots I liked is when she's coming down from one of the clubs. Wait, I hate these club scenes so much. I know they think they look cool, but obviously no one's going to say anything when these people get murdered around them.
Speaker 1:For real. Yeah, but one of my favorite scenes is her walking outside, getting into the car like walking past all the dead people that she killed already and no one's saying anything or doing. Well, not that like I liked how. Like yeah, she just took out all these people and then she drives away in a car, but a car immediately gets hit by another car attacking her right away. That was a cool, pretty cool yeah, I needed more of that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, just back to back action a little bit, yeah, because then it kind of dies out for like a few more minutes and then it's like okay, now what are we going back to? It's kind of a little choppy a little bit more. I want a little bit more creativity, but like you, said origin movie, so it's mid, it's just mid I still am gonna watch the other john wick movies when they come out yeah, definitely um man, I said john.
Speaker 1:John Wick 5 is coming out. They're going to get a what's. I can't remember Kane, his sequel or his own spinoff movie.
Speaker 3:When is that coming out?
Speaker 1:It's been announced, but I doubt. I haven't heard anything about production Fucking eight years from now. Could be. He's a blind guy too. That should be interesting. Great movie in theaters, um. Great movie in theaters. Six, I guess six, out of ten. He said 5.5, very missed, I'll take it as it is.
Speaker 3:If you're a big fan of john wick, definitely see it. See it. If you are a fan, you have to.
Speaker 1:It has potential yeah, yeah, this is that movie was not enough for me to like. Honor their armors, though not me either.
Speaker 1:Nothing to write home about uh, let's go back into 2011, though. Talk about the movie hannah that came out. It's about a 16 year old girl, who was raised by her father to be a perfect assassin, is dispatched on a mission across europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives. I watched this movie. I was like, after watching this movie, then Ballerina and also the Thunderbolts movie, I was like these female assassin stories are almost all the same. They're trained from a very young age because they were forced into this world, and I was like I'm just over this plot line at this point watching this movie. That's why I think I gave it a little bit lower score. If I'd have watched it in 2011, I might have liked it a little bit better.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I liked it a lot back in the day. It was a good action movie and she was younger.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, the actress who plays her is Sororze Ronan, If I'm saying that correct.
Speaker 3:That's kind of weird spelling she was the girl in the Lovely Bones with Mark Wahlberg.
Speaker 2:Never seen it, that's a great movie You've never seen it. It makes me cry Never seen it.
Speaker 3:It's a good one. Dad loses her daughter, she comes back to help him find her killer, and it's her the one that plays in Hannah.
Speaker 1:You know what this is like random thought, you know like there's like a ton of movies. People coming back from war and and like losing their shit with their family or something like that. Yeah, you never see a woman coming home in those movies.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, and there's women's shoulder, right shoulder soldiers. Words are pretty hard, can't?
Speaker 1:talk it's sunday hungover, yeah, but yeah, I'm surprised there hasn't been one like that too yeah, yeah, I need more women action movies um. Sarah the ronin's in this, kate blanchett's in this movie, eric banna I knew eric banna but I I didn't know it was him in this movie. Like how the fuck do I know?
Speaker 3:especially in the beginning when he has that long hair, oh yeah, and beard, and then you see him get out of the water and he's all clean, shaven and stuff. He looks so different yeah, like these.
Speaker 1:These made this guy have a glow up for like no reason this whole movie. I liked it though, yeah, cause he looked odd with long hair.
Speaker 3:Like.
Speaker 1:I think he had like a bun or some point.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Very uh, woody woodsy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this movie was definitely shot on a lower budget. I could tell then, obviously, that John wick Cause I think it was like a hundred million budget. This one had like a lot of different sceneries and stuff like that. I'm glad of it, but like just the style of shooting it, what we felt.
Speaker 3:I just thought it was so cool A girl that grew up in the woods, having nothing like literally nothing but the land and hunting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's going to be plot holes with that, I feel like later in the movie. And hunting yeah, there's going to be plot holes with that, I feel like later in the movie.
Speaker 3:Because all of a sudden, she knows how to work the computer. Well, he had things in the cabin. No, he didn't.
Speaker 1:She was so out of the norm with everything she didn't know how TV worked. True. She didn't know how cars worked either.
Speaker 3:The fan light kind of creeped her out a little bit, she was impressed when the guy turned on the light switch because he goes is this electricity? There's no way he had a computer there's no way she read a lot, though like she retained all that information, like she read about kissing, but she only read like facts about like the muscles of kissing. So when she got kissed by that boy and like freaked out, she had no idea what to what was gonna come of it, man.
Speaker 1:What a crazy ass day she had I know like escaping from this prison and like discovering a whole new world with electricity and other people.
Speaker 3:She was made in a lab.
Speaker 1:Her blood was like yeah and then also like having your first kiss and everything like that, like what an intense day for her dude yeah, that's.
Speaker 3:That's why I think I liked it so much. It just showed like her just going through all of these things in a short period of time and then she finally gets to kill the lady. Oh, and then the first scene, what she says with the deer is what she says to the lady which was? I just missed your heart. Yeah. And then bam right in the head.
Speaker 1:I mean the opening scene was pretty wild. I saw it open her killing a deer. Just how stone cold she is, though, and she's like I just, and you see her going through this training and, like the dad, like being very involved and like teaching, maintaining, like teaching her, like specifics yeah he does come off as a dick, but you can tell he's doing it because, like, I'm really trying to prepare you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was like finally, a kid not on her ipad. Yeah, actually, another father actually involved in doing shit like that. It's like can you imagine like the micro, like where I would be at my dad was not top of me, like that dude I wish I would have learned how to fight.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna do some self-defense classes yeah, okay, okay, cool beans, um.
Speaker 1:And then the day finally comes when she decides like I'm tired of living in here, dude I gotta get the fuck out. And then she leaves, and he also leaves. He was like all right if tired of living in here, dude, I gotta get the fuck out. And then she leaves, and he also leaves too. He's like alright, if you gotta leave, that means I gotta fucking go back to work. And he's kind of like a what do you say? Betrayer In this company, this company.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:By stealing her Because she was creating the lab and running away.
Speaker 1:And the reason he was training her, because he knew one day they were going to come for her and try to kill her, because all her other peers, or whatever you want to call them, were killed. Eric Bana as an actor, I love him so much in this movie I did buy him. I liked him a lot in this film. Actually, he was pretty good. Um, I wish he had a cooler fight scene. Well, his fighting was pretty cool. I should say in this one, the third act scene where he actually gets the fight when he finally dies, I thought it was a little bit cooler. He's, he's timing people up in an unrealistic fashion on the swing set. I know I was like. And then he like, when he gets shot, he's standing a good like 20 feet to the right than what he was before and that fight is like what are we doing here?
Speaker 3:um, oh, the scene, though, where she's in the prison and shoots all of those cameras out that was pretty cool oh, that's the best. And that lady, flinching like she never like, she does not like death, like the redheaded, what's her name in the movie? Cute blanchard plays marissa marissa, marissa wiegler yeah, she's, yeah, she does not like death, she doesn't want to be near it, she flinches at it and even when they do the flashback of like um, her mom dying hannah's mom dying.
Speaker 3:She like didn't even want to like look at the dead bodies, or whatever she. You can just tell she doesn't like death, it scares her but she like controls.
Speaker 1:She's a control freak part of the reason I didn't like her. I mean, like I feel like it took us forever to find out her motive in this movie, because the whole time you just get like why the fuck is she so interested in this little girl? You think at one point that she's her mother and I think she wanted it to be her child. It was supposed to be or something it was weird, like her relationship with her, what her beef was really with her because I don't think she was.
Speaker 3:Hannah's mom was supposed to keep the baby. I think she was supposed to give it to marissa.
Speaker 1:It could be, and that's probably why her and um her dad got in that accident yeah, yeah, um, because marissa killed her. Yeah, how about the other chick, the little friends in this movie and the rv family? She was a hoot. She was weird like I. This girl was like I feel, like too old for her, yeah, age for sure getting into some crazy stuff I mean, I feel like I can totally tell like a middle-aged man wrote for this girl. Yeah, it's kind of creepy kind of.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because like she was like, almost like she was trying to like to me, I felt like felly kelly from the office yeah like her a little bit just trying to be crazy and out there and do what she could, can. She's young yeah young and dumb, yeah, go get into some trouble do you think, do you, did you like them as involved, as it were, the friends?
Speaker 3:yeah I thought it was cute that hannah got to see a girl her age and how a normal teenager was yeah, I guess it's kind of true, you know just being crazy and like doing stuff that you're not supposed to be doing because you're a kid the whole family was kind of wild, like even the parents, yeah they're hippies, yeah, yeah not surprising me hippies who were just like so willing to drive around this little girl I went
Speaker 3:on road trips with my parents every summer, but they went, no, no like picking up this little girl and like yeah, they do ask like where's your?
Speaker 1:dad at yeah but they don't seem as concerned as they should be exactly.
Speaker 3:Well, kids in europe they travel all summer long on trains and stuff. They study abroad and parents just kind of let them go in Europe.
Speaker 1:Can it be me? Can it be me.
Speaker 3:No, we were raised in the United States, Like what?
Speaker 1:I had a good time watching this movie.
Speaker 3:Good, I'm glad I got you to watch it. Now you need to watch the Lovely Bones.
Speaker 1:The Lovely Bones. Okay With.
Speaker 3:Mark Wahlberg. That's a good one. Yeah, same girl. They also did the remake with timothy chalamet, the little women movie. Kirsten dunst did a remake of it too, before this one with timothy chalamet and stuff, and florence pew is in it oh, I did see.
Speaker 1:I didn't see it, but I remember it came out. That's what she has the flower crown or something like that yeah, yeah, no flower crowns. A different movie it was po, but oh, I have no little women.
Speaker 3:It's a. You probably watched it in high school, the original one maybe. Okay. Well, maybe I know more about movies than you, maybe you do, I don't um, hannah was a great movie.
Speaker 1:I wish I would have seen it in theaters, because this movie, like definitely seems like it was made for the movie theaters I think, I watched most of it on my phone, probably the way you shouldn't be doing it. I mean I can't say anything.
Speaker 3:I watched on my ipad, yeah, while I was cleaning my house, but I've seen this movie like I swear. I probably seen this movie 10 times back in the day really if I couldn't find anything else to watch, I would watch that movie.
Speaker 1:I feel like if I were to go back and watch this, I don't think I would. I don't think I would find anything new about this movie. Like you know how you pick up more information the more you watch it. I don't think so. You know who kind of like cringed me out? Was that clown the clown?
Speaker 3:Or the guy the Bond guy, the guy the performer.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, the guy at the end who hides her for a little bit at the meetup point.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah To me.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's what Joaquin Phoenix bases Joker on.
Speaker 3:Ooh, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's exactly the same Like how they act as clowns.
Speaker 3:Do you like the whistling?
Speaker 1:No, that's kind of weird.
Speaker 3:I kind of like it. It's creepy, wasn't that that song from snow white that she was singing? No, what is that song? Look it up. I need to know before we go we have to know.
Speaker 1:I need to search the here. I got it. No, but that was kind of weird quirk that they just had with the whistling, though, and the way she gets killed, like on that train tracks, the, the um, the villain in this movie devil's in the details right wait I don't think that was it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, there we go yeah and then he walks around whistling that later on, when they're trying to search for her at that um park, abandoned park, amusement park type thing he's whistling it trying to find her.
Speaker 1:There's other scenes.
Speaker 3:He's creepy maybe I like creepy movies.
Speaker 1:I think you do uh, what movies are coming out? All right, what would you get? This movie, one out of ten.
Speaker 3:Like an eight, eight and a half.
Speaker 1:You like this movie better than Ballerino.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I liked it because, well, maybe I like it so much because I liked it so much, you know, 14 years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think I like Ballerino better, but this is pretty decent. I'd probably give this one a five out of ten.
Speaker 3:Okay, alright, you went lower on this one. You like Ballerina better?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Alright, yeah, I feel like we never agree in this podcast, but I like it.
Speaker 1:That's the point of being on it. Yeah, we have to debate what movies are coming out soon that you want to go see. I still see lilo and stitch. I know it already came out, but I need to go see that. Yeah, that's all right. Um, what movies are coming out this year? We see the trailer. That one trailer we do it to watch was the long walk the stephen king movie.
Speaker 3:I think I talked about this podcast, oh yeah yeah, that looks really good.
Speaker 1:Uh, f1 is coming out very soon. Next week is the live action how to train your dragon um probably won't see it, I'm being honest, obviously superman fantastic avatar is coming out right then, like in december.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's like the end of the year. Yeah, oh, freaky friday too. When's that coming out?
Speaker 1:here friday.
Speaker 3:That looks kind of lame to me okay, but I was a girl that grew up in this era.
Speaker 1:I have to go see it number two I love it, but it doesn't look like it's gonna be as good when does this come out?
Speaker 3:it probably like thanksgiving or something Freakier Friday yeah.
Speaker 1:I want to say October. Maybe it's definitely towards the second episode.
Speaker 3:Ooh, Austin Butler's in a movie Caught Stealing that's coming out this year.
Speaker 1:He's coming out with a lot of movies this year.
Speaker 3:I just like the way he looks. He's nice to look at, look at. I liked them in the outsiders a lot. Oh, I just watched that. That's a great movie I it was on apple or something the other day and I saw it for free and I'm like I wanted to watch this. That's such a bad still trying to get my motorcycle if anybody wants to donate to hannah yeah, sure, good luck with that, I know right, you think my mom's gonna listen, like there's only four people who listen, whatever you can try
Speaker 3:yeah for sale.
Speaker 1:Let me know next week is a live action of how to train a dragon on the podcast. But I don't. I'm tired of live action movies. A lot of us are. So I mean, after that f1's coming out this this month, it's going to be really good um honestly, I probably won't go to the movies for a little bit pedro pas and Chris Evans has a new rom-com coming out this week.
Speaker 1:Actually, what is it? The Materialist? Materialist, what's her name? I cannot remember her name, but she plays this person who sets up people to meet couples and stuff like that, and she has a boyfriend that is played by chris evans who's kind of like it's just an asshole oh, what's her nuts?
Speaker 3:uh, what is her name? Why can't I think of it?
Speaker 1:with the bang she was in dakota johnson yeah, I don't like her why, she wasn't what that's that um 21 shades of 50 shades of gray 50 yeah and then she's also in. Um, miss, madame webb, that movie sucked ass because of her. Yeah honestly hated that movie. It did Shades of Grey. And then she's also in, madame Web, that movie sucked ass yeah, honestly hated that movie.
Speaker 3:It did kind of ruin her a little bit but anyways, chris Evans plays her trashy boyfriend.
Speaker 1:She leaves him. She meets Pedro Pascal dude.
Speaker 3:I love Maren Ireland. She plays Violet in this movie. She is in the show Dope Thief on Apple. Tv, that's on my watch list though. Great show, watch it. Great actress, I like her a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's coming out next week, so I might go watch that in the movies. Um, hannah, thank you so much for coming on the podcast thanks for having me we got like two more episodes before the big announcements coming up, so we'll have to plan some point for you to come back on too. Yeah, and also like people listening who've been on the podcast, I I do plan on having something with everybody just to come by and chill, watch movies, maybe get a couple of drinks. So heck.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we gotta do it this summer yeah, yeah, um but thanks for having me. I enjoy doing this. Yeah, I'll tell you, make me go to the movies and I like it yeah, shout out anthony and armani too, coming with us too hell yeah, I just said that um, everyone, thank you for listening.
Speaker 1:Subscribe to the instagram page, the tiktok. I'm trying to be more active on there. Um, yeah, stay tuned next week where I'll be saving you a seat. All right, bye.
